Monthly Archives: December 2023

Carolyn Dever, How to Lose a Library at Public Books – the best thing I’ve read on the ongoing and very serious British Library problems (via @nescio13 on X/Twitter) What’s business as usual at the Victoria and Albert Museum is … Continue reading →

Julien Larregue, Hereditary: The Persistence of Biological Theories of Crime – Stanford University Press, January 2024 Since the 1990s, a growing number of criminal courts around the world have been using expert assessments based on behavioral genetics and neuroscience to … Continue reading →

Jeffrey Ahlman, Ghana: A Political and Social History – Bloomsbury, November 2023 Few African countries have attracted the international attention that Ghana has. In the late-nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the then-colonial Gold Coast emerged as a key political and … Continue reading →

Joseph Albernaz, Common Measures: Romanticism and the Groundlessness of Community – Stanford University Press, August 2024 What happens to the experience of community when the grounds of communal life collapse? The Romantic period’s upheaval cast both traditional communal organizations of … Continue reading →

Philip Hutch and Elaine Stratford, Landscape, Association, Empire: Imagining Van Diemen’s Land – Palgrave Macmillan, 2023 This book tells a compelling story about invasion, settler colonialism, and an emergent sense of identity in place, as seen through topographical and landscape … Continue reading →